I'm a terrible worker. Being bare bones FI will do that to you. I currently work full-time for a startup and while I enjoy it, it is still work for someone else, including a 40min. one-way commute that I was able to negotiate down at first, but now is non-negotiable. When the boss asks you to come in 5 days a week, you can't really say no...
Even though it's really a great job, good pay, fun coworkers, awesomely successful boss.. it's still work. Doing stuff that I'm kind of ambivalent about at this point. I don't want to really go into specifics but it's real estate related, similar to a discount brokerage. My main task is to recruit real estate agents to close transactions for a very low fee. I am helping my cousin close one and I calculated that after tax, I will make ~$400. I don't mind because it's my cousin and it'll save him a lot of money, but... that's not really worth it to me. Yet I'm supposed to be convincing agents that it's worth it to them.
My heart is in selling real estate. That's what I want to do. My friend wants to start a team and if I leave, I could join him and help him build the team. I'd control my work and my schedule. I'm great at it. A lender one of my buyers worked with told me he'd been in the business 20+ years and I'm the best he's seen; I saved that client over $10K which more than made up for my commission.
Anyway. Sorry for the novel. I've only been at this job for 2 months. I love startups, and my goal is to eventually just do investing. I'm young. My rental income more than covers my expenses, so I mainly work to build my stash for tomorrow and because eventually I want to move out of one of my rentals and have a family.
Thoughts?